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The Chicago Marathon has a reputation of being one of the fastest marathon courses in the world due to the flat course and favorable autumn temperatures. [6] The Chicago Marathon has been the site of six world records in the distance, with the most recent coming in 2023 when Kelvin Kiptum set a world record of 2:00:35.
For a performance to be ratified as a world record by World Athletics, the marathon course on which the performance occurred must be 42.195 km (26.219 mi) long, [34] measured in a defined manner using the calibrated bicycle method [35] (the distance in kilometers being the official distance; the distance in miles is an approximation) and meet other criteria that rule out artificially fast ...
In 2020, Duplantis surpassed Bubka's outdoor world best (the old 6.14 m record), with a 6.15 m vault and continued to improve the world record thereafter, most recently in 2024 with a 6.26 m mark. As new events are advanced to world record status, World Athletics might delay declaring initial performances as the official world record until ...
One of those runners was Dr. TaMar Hicks, a Grand Prairie native, who set a Guinness World Record for the fastest half marathon completed while wearing handcuffs with an unofficial time of 1:20:36 ...
Finally coming to a halt on Tuesday — the last day of 2024 — Belgian ultra runner Hilde Dosogne felt she had done all to take the world record as the first woman to run a marathon every single ...
Kiptum was the first man to run the marathon in under 2 hours, 1 minute in an official race when he set the world record of 2:00.35 in Chicago in October, beating the mark of fellow Kenyan and ...
March 17: 2024 Asian Race Walking Championships (20 km) in Nomi. 20 km winners: Hayato Katsuki (m) / Hitomi Shimoka (f) Road running. April 14: 2024 Montenegro Half Marathon Championships in Nikšić; May 26: 2024 South American Half Marathon Championships in Asunción; Cross country. February 17 & 18: 2024 FISU Cross Country Championships in ...
Chepng'etich broke the world record set by Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa, who ran the Berlin Marathon in 2:11:53 last year. Chepng'etich is now the first woman in history to run a marathon in under 2:10.